i m kate bolduan in for erin burnett. a race against time. six days left, up to 1500 americans are still on the ground in afghanistan according to the secretary of state tony blinken. as administration offered for the first time any concrete numbers of americans left to evacuate, blinken said the u.s. does not know if all of them are looking to leave or are even still in afghanistan. these are dynamic calculations that we are working hour by hour to refine for accuracy. blinken also saying at least 4500 americans have been evacuated so far. more than 500 in the last day alone. but those evacuations in kabul growing more dangerous by the day as cnn learns an isis affiliate wants to create mayhem at the airport and planning to carry out multiple terror attacks there. that s according to a u.s. defense official who also tells our jim sciutto the concerns increase because of quote a very specific threat stream from isis-k. adding to those concerns, members of isis-k escaped t
withdrawal puts their lives at risk and that they are being left behind. thanks for being with us. new details are emerging from the shocking assassination of haiti s president. the country s ambassador to the u.s. says police have killed several suspected attackers and arrested two others. we re told they re foreigners. but the motive for this assassination and who s behind it remain a mystery. images posted online appear to show the security operations at the president s home in port-au-prince after he was gunned down. we also have audio purportedly from the moments the killing unfolded. cnn cannot independently confirm its authenticity. the frames you re about to see are black, but the voice you will hear is raising questions. the american-sounding accent is from someone who reportedly claimed to be from the u.s. drug enforcement agency. dea, dea operations, everybody right now. the u.s. has denied any involvement in the assassination of president jovenel moise, and cn
alleged co-conspirators in that indictment. charles burnham, defense attorney for co-conspirator number 2 from the recent indictment. this is a person who has been confirmed and identified as john eastman, the lawyer, who advised donald trump, who spoke at the january 6th rally there next to rudy giuliani, and was a key architect of much of what the president and his aides were trying to push heading into the january 6th certification. charles, first of all, thank you very much for making the time and joining me tonight. thank you for having me. absolutely. we put aside some time for this. i want to start with a couple of quick things and then get into the case. but first and foremost, donald trump lost the 2020 election. you accept that fact? well, look. there is a large portion of the country that has issues with the 2020 election. there are still discussion about things that went on. a large portion of the country believes in goats or horoscopes. i m asking do you
the commissioner of alabama s department of corrections, john hamm, gave details of the execution at a news conference. at 7:53 central time tonight, alabama started carrying out the execution by nitrogen oxide by. smith was executed by the i988 by. smith was executed by the 1988 capital murder of elizabeth sennet in culver county. police confer with many witnesses for smith s last words. he was pronounced dismissed at 8:25pm central standard time. that was the commissioner of alabama s corrections, jon hamm, speaking. after the execution, a number of witnesses addressed the media and described what happened. once execution began, within a of minutes kenny began to violently push against the straps. he said began to move back and forth violently. this was the fifth execution i ve witnessed in alabama and i have never seen such a violent reaction to an execution. charles sennett, whose mother elizabeth was murdered by kenneth smith, also gave his reaction to the execution. not